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A Fierce Green Fire is the first big-picture synthesis of environmentalism - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years worldwide. It tells the story of the environmental movement from conservation to climate change. We focus on activism -- people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future. Our concerns are connecting causes, how the issues grew, exploring ideas and the evolution of a vision. The common theme is a struggle to save nature against the destructive impact of humanity – from halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization. Our thesis is that this is the time when mankind must learn to live with nature, move beyond the exploitation at the heart of industrial society and find a way based on biology, balancing human needs with the natural world that sustains us, creating a living planet. As Stewart Brand says in the film, “We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are Spaceship Earth. We are Gaia.”  

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The goal of this project is to ensure that the experiences of rural Gulf Coast communities inform private and public institutions as they consider issues such as community development, disaster recovery, and neighborhood investment. The project seeks to keep the stories and voices of the rural Gulf Coast in the public eye so that 1) these communities receive due consideration in philanthropic and governmental policy decisions and 2) so the nation as a whole may benefit from the lessons and experiences of the rural Gulf Coast.

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Housing is a Human Right is an ongoing documentary portrait of the struggle for Home. Composed of oral narratives and photographs, along with testimonies and memories of home, woven and remixed, this international collection of viscerally honest, first-person narratives aims to serve as a reminder that home is as tenuous a space as the shelter that sustains it.

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A celebration of perseverance and rebirth through the arts, this inspiring documentary follows a group of New Orleans teens as they stage a revival of the hurricane-themed musical Once on this Island.

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Threatened by sprawl and ravaged by Katrina, a Mississippi community settled by emancipated slaves fights for a just and sustainable future for the Gulf Coast.

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From front porches to the frontlines, LAND OF OPPORTUNITY captures the struggle to rebuild New Orleans, one of America’s most beloved and emblematic cities. Juxtaposing the perspectives of protagonists from different walks of life, from urban planners to immigrant workers to public housing residents, this multiplatform documentary project reveals how the story of post-Katrina New Orleans is also the story of urban America.

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A feature documentary about filmmaker Jon Goldman's attempt to understand his family's connection to oil and the film Louisiana Story.  Using Robert J.Flaherty's classic film as a point of reference he returns to the bayou sixty years later and discovers the price of progress on the land and its people.

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News You Might Have Missed has published important but overlooked news from around the world every Wednesday since February 2002, and now is expanding to a free daily service and a syndication-based revenue model.